Karys
#14,040 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karys has been given to 509 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #14,040 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Karys, 2025
1 in 553,000
Karys over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Karys?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,040
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karys sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karys. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karyss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karys was born before 2008 — so the typical Karys is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 509
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (274).
Is Karys rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −4,152
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,375
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,457
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.7%
- Peak was 2006 (56)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.4% average annual change
Spellings of Karys
Karys is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 70.1% against Karys's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Karys is used
Across 1910–2025, Karys was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 411,639 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Karys has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Karys around the world
Where Karys ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2017#5,765in 2017
- Scotland2002–2017#666in 2017
- Northern Ireland2007–2007#413in 2007
- Canada2003–2017#3,407in 2017
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Karys by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karys
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karys
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.